Bessie Smith, the greatest and most significant blues singer of the 1920's, paid her dues and persevered the suffering of desertion, infidelity, discrimination, and hard-drinking street life. Bessie began the words of her "song," early in her life. Bessie's early childhood was plagued by desertion, poverty, and discrimination. By the age of nine, both her parents and at least two of her brothers had passed away. After being orphaned, her sister Viola became Bessie's principal caregiver, and B
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